A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adria...tic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the ...greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

You shall hang the curtain under the clasps, and bring the ark of the covenant in there, within the curtain; and the curtain shall... separate for you the holy place from the most holy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The reason I do not spend my days in despair and my nights in hopeless weeping simply is that I am in love with my own ruin. I the...refore deserve no sympathy, and probably shan't get it: my own profound self-compassion is enough. I am so abominably self-conscious that no smallest detail in this tragedy eludes me. Day after day I sit in the theatre of my own life and watch the drama of my own history proceeding to its close. Pray God the curtain falls at the right moment lest the play drag on into some long and tedious anticlimax.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He m...ust do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguise...d in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Our assembly being now formed not by ourselves but by the goodwill and sprightly imagination of our readers, we have nothing to do... but to draw up the curtain ... and to discover our chief personage on the stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »